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The War on Reality, Mary Harrington & Paul Kingsnorth

Rebel Wisdom

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What Is Gnosticism?

Gnosticism was a loose collection of beliefs that were around in the early centuries of the christian church. The gnostic movement is promoted, and still promotes, actually, the idea that you can escape the body and the physical realm if you have the right kind of secret knowledge. It's not much of a leap from that to what sillican valley is doing which is attempting to transcend the messy, horribleness of physical reality. But i think we're gon to do a lot of damage as we attempt to. And i also think it's an elite project. You know, it is not something that's available to the majority of humanity. This is, you know, th

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